1917 - The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded: biography - Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott; history - Jean Jules Jusserand for With Americans of Past and Present Days; journalism - Herbert B. Swope for his work for the New York World.

1937 - The world’s first supermarket trolley was seen in Oklahoma.

1940 - WWII: The evacuation of Dunkirk was completed. Over the six days, a flotilla of 900 naval and civilian craft managed to rescue 338,226 people.